i say that's like every other day in america where the rest of the world as head of congress. aughter] gerri: how is this different? [laughter] >> i think that's right. i hink what we're seeing in public is a little bit different from all rehearsing in private. what you're likely to see is republicans agree to some kind of deoupling of the tax rate issue, whether they do it and this proposal that has been floated that they vote present and let the president and democrats on the issue or whether they free up -- whethe john boehner frieze of members of congress to vote for some kind of a compromise that would include a rise in rates on the wealthy. i don't know wha the mechnisms will be, but you have the negotiations taking place on the one hand, and on the other hand you have negotiations on all the rest of the stuff which is likely to be lumped into some kind of an omnibus bill a series of bills at the end of the year struck the last minute to ail us out of this issue. likely to include a bunch of unattractive add-ons, last minute things, and it will be the kind of agreement,